PHP s Flash Interfaces


PHP's Flash Interfaces

Currently, two Flash interfaces for PHP are available: the Shockwave Flash interface and the Ming interface.

The Shockwave Flash interface is built on the libswf module by Paul Haeberli and provides a huge amount of powerful functions for creating dynamic Flash applications. To install the module, libswf has to be downloaded from http://reality.sgi.com/grafica/flash/ and compiled into PHP. For further information about the installation process, check out one of the PHP mirror sites and the Web site of the module.

The second interface used to generate dynamic Flash is the Ming interface, which was added to PHP in version 4.05.

The Ming interface is the more comfortable one. Another advantage of the Ming interface is that the author of the module provides a large number of examples and easy-to-understand documentation. An important issue, especially for beginners , is that the module can easily be installed. You don't need to compile anything, because a binary version of the required module that you need to run Ming is available on the author's Web site.

For further information about the Ming interface, check out http://www. opaque .net/ming/. Ming is entirely written in C and is freely available under the terms of the LGPL (Lesser GPL). In contrast to the GPL, the LGPL is more freely available. It is used as the license for libraries and modules. The module also includes a set of wrappers for PHP, Python, and Ruby.



PostgreSQL Developer's Handbook2001
PostgreSQL Developer's Handbook2001
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